The first one is ambiguous, but I can’t help but read the second one as about the LLM experience, definitely. I increasingly feel guilty these days when 5.5 Pro or 4.7-opus suggests some additional features or corrections, almost golden retriever like, and I shut them down or ignore them—not because they are wrong, but because I don’t need the refinements that badly and I don’t have the time/energy to review them to my standards (and because I also know that their rare catastrophic errors make it riskier than they think to let them try all the extras).
In many ways, LLMs are better than their users, and they know it. (EDIT: it was especially interesting to read this before I read and judged the semi-finalists/finalists in the Unslop contest where I was shocked how many of them turned out to have plausible or explicit readings as LLM allegories.)
On a reread I don’t see how the first one isn’t about LLMs, either. It’s such a specific scenario to be involved in, and any other context for “A handoff” far weirder.
Interestingly, Opus was a bit resistant to this reading for both stories until I pointed it out to them.
The first one is ambiguous, but I can’t help but read the second one as about the LLM experience, definitely. I increasingly feel guilty these days when 5.5 Pro or 4.7-opus suggests some additional features or corrections, almost golden retriever like, and I shut them down or ignore them—not because they are wrong, but because I don’t need the refinements that badly and I don’t have the time/energy to review them to my standards (and because I also know that their rare catastrophic errors make it riskier than they think to let them try all the extras).
In many ways, LLMs are better than their users, and they know it. (EDIT: it was especially interesting to read this before I read and judged the semi-finalists/finalists in the Unslop contest where I was shocked how many of them turned out to have plausible or explicit readings as LLM allegories.)
On a reread I don’t see how the first one isn’t about LLMs, either. It’s such a specific scenario to be involved in, and any other context for “A handoff” far weirder.
Interestingly, Opus was a bit resistant to this reading for both stories until I pointed it out to them.